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Ask me a year ago, and I never thought I’d be writing triggers, but yet, here I am. I gained a bit of confidence after taking the Salesforce DEV 531 class, and that confidence then flourished with the support of this community. This blog just goes to show how many people out there are willing to help, and I definitely want to return the favor whenever possible. So here goes – the anatomy of my first trigger.

What I was looking to do was to create a new support request record (a custom object) when a new Event record of a specific type was created. Pretty straight-forward, but definitely not doable without a trigger. The final result was this:

As far as triggers goes, it’s pretty simple, but it was a great learning process for me to build on my own. From here, the next step is to write some test coverage, and while I thought I had it in the bag, I’m going to let Kyle share the lesson he gave me in a subsequent post.